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    A numerical method for 3D barotropic flows in turbomachinery

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    A numerical method for the simulation of 3D inviscid barotropic flows in rotating frames is presented. A barotropic state law incorporating a homogeneous-flow cavitation model is considered. The discretisation is based on a finite-volume formulation applicable to unstructured grids. A shock-capturing Roe-type upwind scheme is proposed for barotropic flows. The accuracy of the proposed method at low Mach numbers is ensured by ad-hoc preconditioning, preserving time consistency. An implicit time advancing only relying on the algebraic properties of the Roe flux function, and thus applicable to a variety of problems, is presented. The proposed numerical ingredients, already validated in a 1D context and applied to 3D non-rotating computations, are then applied to the 3D water flow around a typical turbopump inducer

    The effect of the numerical scheme on the subgrid scale term in large-eddy simulation

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    A priori tests are performed to study the effect of the filter on the subgrid scale term in large-eddy simulation. Several filters, corresponding to finite-difference schemes of different order of accuracy, are applied to direct numerical simulation data. In particular, the effect of the filter on the importance of the Leonard term and on its correlation with the subgrid scale stress is investigated to evaluate, for different numerical schemes, the capabilities of subgrid scale models accounting for this term, such as scale-similarity or mixed models

    Application of a wavelet cross-correlation technique to the analysis of mixing

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    The wavelet cross-correlation analysis is applied to the time signals of scalar concentrations deriving from axisymmetric direct numerical simulations of a coaxial jet flow. Indications are established on the contribution of the roll up, passage, and pairing of vortical structures to Reynolds stress and to mixing between the two streams

    An Investigation on Mixing in a Coaxial Jet Configuration

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    Atti del Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale. ADIA 98-
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